HOW TO PRONOUNCE
caricature
/ˈkɛɹəkətʃɚ/
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Keep the main beat on the opening syllable.
Use four vowel beats and a ch sound near the end. Keep the two middle vowels light before the ch and the final unstressed r-colored vowel.
4 syllables · Stress on syllable 1
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“The drawing is a playful caricature.”
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CMU Pronouncing Dictionary ↗What does caricature mean?
noun
- A pictorial representation of someone in which distinguishing features are exaggerated for comic effect.
- A grotesque misrepresentation.
- In facial recognition systems, a face that has been modified to look less like the average face, and thus more distinctive.
More meanings (2)
adjective
- Having the characteristics of a caricature, grotesque.
verb
- To represent someone in an exaggerated or distorted manner.
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IPA pronunciation
/ˈkɛɹəkətʃɚ/
Pronunciation used in the listening tip.
CMU Pronouncing Dictionary ↗Other dictionary pronunciations
/ˈkɛɹɪkət͡ʃʊɚ//ˈkɛɹɪkət͡ʃɚ//kəˈɹɪkət͡ʃʊɚ//kəˈɹɪkət͡ʃɚ/
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John Leech used the caricature of a baby for the purposes of a scorn that was not angry, but familiar.
His robes transformed me into such an absurd caricature of a preacher that it was quite impossible for me to wear them.
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All have a larger or smaller share of it, from the live atom to the anthropoid ape, that hideous caricature of man.
Tom partly uncovered a dismal caricature of a house with two gable ends to it and a corkscrew of smoke issuing from the chimney.
It was the same work he had so often performed in his “Parlors,” only magnified, made monstrous, distorted, and grotesqued, the caricature of dentistry.